I've been looking at the Silverlight Photo Gallery 4.3.  While it's great that it can create a dynamic photo gallery from images in a directory, there's no  information on how to upload photos.

I'm looking for a gallery solution where authenticated users can contribute to a shared gallery that only the authenticated users can see.  Additionally, I need to have a gallery that only a particular user can add/delete photos from, but all authenticated users can see.  The ability to bulk upload to a directory is key. I'm not sure that the silverlight gallery allows bulk uploads via zip files. I can't seem to find info on that. I also looked at the ZLDNN media gallery module, which seems OK.

1. How do I allow authenticated users to upload single image files and/or zip files of images to a certain folder? (ideally a secure file system folder).  Is there a separate upload module that I can use?  If there is, the silverlight gallery would be great.  It'd be even better if there's a "file manager" module that I can point to a specific "root" directory such as "photos" that allows authenticated users to create their own folders as subdirectories in the "photos" folder. 

2. Does anyone have a favorite gallery module?  Ideally less than $100.

Not sure if it meets all the requirements you have but www.mandeeps.com Live Content has a lot of functionality for galleries and many other items.